“Superman”, the new big budget opus on the legendary superhero, flew to the top of the North American box office with canon revenues amounting to $ 122 million, according to the estimates on Sunday from the Exhibitor Relations specialized firm.
“It is an exceptional national launch for the 7the Episode of a story of superhero filmed for over 75 years, ”commented David Gross, analyst for the specialized company Franchise Entertainment Research.
With David Corenswet in the role of the new Superman/Clark Kent, and Rachel Brosnahan to embody Lois, the director James Gunn “chose not to rely on big stars”, but “the narration and the realization do the work” for this last delivery of the DC Studios, the “superhero” division of Warner Bros. Discovery.
With $ 122 million in revenue estimated from Friday to Sunday in the Cinemas of the United States and Canada, “Superman” exceeds the launch last weekend of “Jurassic World: Renaissance” (91.5 million). This weekend, the feature film produced by Universal, with Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey, ranks second with $ 40 million.
“F1”, the film of racing cars in which Brad Pitt embodies an old Formula 1 pilot aging on the slopes, arrives third with $ 13 million in revenue.
Then follow “Dragons”, the remake of the animated film of the Universal and Dreamworks studios (7.8 million), then “Elio”, last delivery of Disney/Pixar studios (3.9 million).
Here is the rest of the top 10:
6. “28 years later” (2.73 million)
7. «Lilo & Stitch» (2,7 millions)
8. «Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning» (1,5 million)
9. «M3GAN 2.0» (1,4 million)
10. «Materialists» (720.000)